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movingforward2010

bendix wrote: »

All very laudable of course, but completely nullified by the fact that you don't actually PRODUCE anything in these non-jobs.

so processing JSA claims is useless?

bendix

Council offices. The only work environment in the world where men wearing cardigans is considered acceptable.

Nuff said, really.

movingforward2010

The_White_Horse wrote: »

just cost to the tax payer. that is what these cretins don't understand. they add nothing but cost. and if they go over budget, they just get a bigger budget the next year as reward for their incompetency.

i heard an interview with a social worker. she said they set aside a day and a half to write up notes from a one hour meeting. typical public sector insanity. If i am in a one hour meeting, the note takes no more than 15mins - or maybe 30-40 if it is extremely complex.

so, what is the social workers idea to sort it out? become more efficient? hahahah, of course not. just employ more people. how does that work? this new person will write about a meeting they weren't at???

lets have a meeting, a qango, another meeting, etc etc....

yeah i agree with what your saying infact we joke about management saying 'they've gone for a meeting about the meeting their having next week'

what im trying to say is that most of 'us' are at the bottom of the scale, we have no say in what happens, management, dont know their !!!! from their elbow, we just get told what to do and if we dont meet some impossible target we get $h!t

bendix

wxmlad wrote: »

so processing JSA claims is useless?

Red rag to a bull, wxmlad.

Not just useless. Worse than useless. A double whammy of waste, profligacy and non-productiveness.

CluelessJock

wolvoman wrote: »

Oh goodness, give me strength.
My point was about whether renting was dead money and my response was that mortgage interest is dead money too. What on earth has capital repayment got to do with it?

Your mortgage payments are only so small because either 1.) you're on a tracker/SVR that is low because of low current BoE rates or 2.) You have large equity/deposit which is subsidising the mortgage.

The difference between interest payments and rent is that interest payments also serve as a vehicle to borrow the money to buy a property, so:

rent - provides a roof over your head (so not totally dead money)

interest payment - provides a roof over your head and services the finance to but the property

movingforward2010

CluelessJock wrote: »

Just had an appraisal then wxmlad?

i dont see how you can judge whether or not i work hard

movingforward2010

bendix wrote: »

Red rag to a bull, wxmlad.

Not just useless. Worse than useless. A double whammy of waste, profligacy and non-productiveness.

as said im dong a job im paid to do, what do we do then when someone is made unemployed, dont pay them?

The_White_Horse

wxmlad wrote: »

so processing JSA claims is useless?

what is unacceptable is the team of morons needed to do one person's job. the public sector has three people (at least) for every one they actually need. they have a manager, then another manager, then a committee, who reports to a another committee, who has a manager and another higher manager all to order a paperclip.

As I always say, HALF the staff at least are not necessary

CluelessJock

wxmlad wrote: »

management, dont know their !!!! from their elbow, we just get told what to do and if we dont meet some impossible target we get $h!t

They seem to know how to become management, so if they don't know their !!!!! from their elbows it doesn't really say much for those they manage!

Take time to think it through wxmlad.

kriss_boy

This thread is a joke.

This is meant to be a forum to offer support and advice but more often that not threads are beaten down with negativity and the usual suspects spouting the usualy nonsense.